Latest parliamentary win by Putin’s United Russia has been years in the manufacturing

(The Conversation) President Vladimir Putin’s ruling United Russia party defied economic concerns and a recent slump in support to retain a parliamentary majority – to the surprise of almost no one. The…

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Expectations for Russia’s September Parliamentary Elections

PONARS Eurasia Commentary by Maria Lipman and Nikolay Petrov with Vladimir Gel’man, Grigorii Golosov, Ben Noble, Gleb Pavlovsky, Andrey Pertsev, Ekaterina Schulmann, and Denis Volkov. Although the experts interviewed here…

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Electoral Manipulation and Regime Support: Survey Evidence from Russia

Does electoral fraud stabilize authoritarian rule or undermine it? The answer to this question rests in part on how voters evaluate regime candidates who engage in fraud. Using a survey…

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Regime and the Opposition at the Regional Elections 2020: Between the Demand for Change and the Status Quo

(RAD) Abstract: On September 11–13, 2020, Russians elected 18 governors and 11 subnational legislatures. The “single voting day,” which due to the Covid-19 pandemic stretched over three days, took place in the…

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Russia’s rigged elections look nothing like the US election – they have immediate, unquestioned results there

(Conversation) The 2020 election, in which Joe Biden is the projected winner, is not what a rigged election looks like. Rigged elections are organized. Vote counts certainly don’t play out in front of…

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Inside Job: The Challenge of Foreign Online Influence in U.S. Elections [Book Reviews]

(War on the Rocks) Kremlin-backed trolls are sowing disinformation and have adapted their game for the 2020 campaign. U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr has been vague about the probity of accepting foreign assistance, and the U.S. Office…

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Putin’s support is weakening. Will that show up in Russia’s regional elections this weekend?

(Monkey Cage) On Sunday, Russia will hold regional elections. Voters will cast ballots in some 9,000 races in 83 regions, with everything from elections to fill national legislature vacancies to elections for…

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Taylor: The authorities thought it was better to take the protests over the summer than it would be to steal the elections in September

(VOX) Russians across the country voted this weekend, but everyone was watching city council elections in Moscow. That’s because this summer, tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters took to Moscow’s streets, demanding…

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Sonin: I went and Smart Voted. I voted “against all”—against everyone who ruined the Moscow elections

(VOA) MOSCOW – Russian voters handed setbacks to Kremlin-affiliated candidates in Moscow and other local elections nationwide — losses that came despite a near total ban on opposition candidates that sparked…

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The Mueller Report and the Silence of the Experts

(Medium) The Mueller reports highlights many shortcomings in American democracy, but also reveals a deeper failure that informs our broader politics: the silence of the experts. Those well positioned to comment on…

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